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Daniel Schramek awarded Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation by a Postdoctoral Fellow

Daniel Schramek, a postdoctoral fellow in Elaine Fuchs’s Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, has received the Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The national award, in its second year, is given to one postdoc and one graduate student ann...
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Tri-Institutional Breakthrough Prize winners establish new award for postdocs

Three winners of the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Charles L. Sawyers of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Cornelia I. Bargmann of the Rockefeller University and Lewis C. Cantley of Weill Cornell Medical College, have used a portion of their awards to establish a new annua...
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Robert Darnell elected to National Academy of Sciences

Robert B. Darnell, Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, has been named a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Darnell is one of 84 newly elected members announced today by the Academy; an additional 21 foreign associates from 15 cou...
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Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande awarded Lewis Thomas Prize

Atul Gawande, a surgeon who has written several highly regarded books on public health, has been awarded the 2014 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science from The Rockefeller University. Gawande was honored at a ceremony in Rockefeller’s Caspary Auditorium in March. The Lewis Thomas Prize wa...
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Titia de Lange to receive Canada Gairdner International Award

Titia de Lange, a cell biologist who studies how the ends of chromosomes are protected from damage, will be honored with the Canada Gairdner International Award, given for significant discoveries in medical science. de Lange, who is Leon Hess Professor and head of the Laboratory of Cell Biology a...
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Nora Pencheva wins 2014 Weintraub Graduate Student Award

Nora Pencheva, a graduate fellow in Sohail Tavazoie’s Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology, will receive a Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, one of the country’s most prestigious graduate student prizes. The award is given by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and recognizes ou...
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Adjunct faculty member Kayo Inaba receives L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science award

Kayo Inaba, known for her work on dendritic cells, is being honored as the Asia-Pacific recipient of the L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science award, which supports eminent women in science throughout the world who are working in the life and physical sciences. Inaba is an adjunct faculty member in Mic...
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Elaine Fuchs receives prestigious award from American Association for Cancer Research

In recognition of her contributions to the understanding of skin, skin stem cells and skin-related disease, Rockefeller’s Elaine Fuchs will receive the 2014 Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research from the American Association for Cancer Research. The award, announced to...
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Sebastian Klinge awarded Sloan Research Fellowship

Rockefeller’s Sebastian Klinge, who joined the faculty in September, will be the recipient of one of the most distinguished awards for early-career scientists from the United States and Canada, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Klinge is among 126 scholars from a range of scientific discip...
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David Allis, pioneer in epigenetics, to receive prestigious Japan Prize

C. David Allis, a pioneer in the field of epigenetics whose discovery that chemical modifications of DNA-packaging proteins play a key role in regulating the activity of individual genes, will be awarded the 2014 Japan Prize in Life Sciences. The announcement, by the Japan Prize Foundation, was m...
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